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Daily Video: Russia Implicated In White House Email Hack

Today’s topics include a report on Russia’s involvement in a White House email hack, new additions to Brocade’s campus LAN portfolio, a project for developers interested in Azure IoT services and recent updates to Citrix GoToMeeting. Russia was in fact behind an Oct. 2014 security breach in the White House email system, according to a […]

Daily Video: Mozilla Dials Back on Firefox Opportunistic Encryption

Today’s topics include Mozilla’s decision to disable “opportunistic encryption,” new threat intelligence services from Cisco, a fresh collaboration between IBM and NASA and findings about the vulnerability of the Global 2000. Mozilla has had a change of heart regarding opportunistic encryption—for now. The company rolled out its open-source Firefox 37 Web browser on March 31, […]

Daily Video: Apple Reveals More Details About Apple Watch Launch

Today’s topics include new information on the Apple Watch, additional compute capabilities from Juniper Networks, news on the availability of Intel’s Compute Stick and fresh network switch offerings from Dell. Apple announced several weeks ago that preorders would begin for the upcoming Apple Watch on April 10, but now the company is filling in the […]

Daily Video: Microsoft Releases iOS, Android Versions of Office Lens

Today’s topics include news about Microsoft’s Office Lens app, surprising findings from a smartphone study, a move by Intel to create a tablet to combat credit card fraud and a promising finding about growing numbers of female software developers. Microsoft’s popular and free Office Lens app, which turns a smartphone into a pocket document scanner, […]

Daily Video: White House Sanctions to Hit Cyber-Crime in Pocketbook

Today’s topics include a new government measure to combat cyber-crime, the release of the IBM Verse social messaging system, a new convertible laptop and tablet Chromebook and a change to how customers are billed for Azure Backup. An Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama on April 1 is the latest in a series of […]

Daily Video: Apple Watch Buyers Will Get Guided Shopping Experiences

Today’s topics include Apple’s carefully orchestrated shopping smartwatch experiences, opting out of Verizon’s mobile ad tracking program, Microsoft’s announcement of Visual Studio 2015 and the debut of Firefox 37. With sales expectations and customer interest high for the upcoming Apple Watch, the tech giant is putting relatively rigid marketing and sales procedures in place to […]

Daily Video: Windows 10 Preview Heading to More Lumia Smart Phones

Today’s daily video topics include a release of Microsoft test versions of its upcoming operating systems for Windows phones, the rapid growth of the Apple Watch in the wearables market, IBM’s new IoT business unit, and Amazon’s secret drone testing in Canada. Microsoft is preparing to significantly increase the number of smartphones supported by its […]

Daily Video: Samsung Galaxy S6 Available to Boost Mobile Users

Boost Mobile customers will be able to buy Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 smartphone with no annual contract for $649.99. The new smartphone, and its flashier sibling, the Galaxy S6 Edge, will be released by Samsung April 10 and will also be available through the big four wireless carriers in the United States: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile […]

Daily Video: Intel Negotiating to Buy Altera, Reports Say

Intel reportedly is negotiating to acquire chip maker Altera, a deal that would be the company’s largest since buying security software maker McAfee in 2011 for $7.7 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal for Altera would be in the range of $10.4 billion, and would bring together two chip companies that have […]

Daily Video: Amazon Takes Wraps Off; Offers Sky’s-the-Limit Storage

Amazon, the first Internet services provider to go mainstream with cloud storage in 2006, revealed March 26 that it now is offering two unlimited cloud storage plans with Amazon Cloud Drive: Unlimited Everything or Unlimited Photos. Photos and video and other images can all be housed in Unlimited Everything. But for those are totally focused […]